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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Bermondsey 1937

Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1937

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Table: For Bacteriological Examination.

For Bacteriological Examination.

Milk, undesignated 44
Tuberculin Tested Milk91
Tuberculin Tested (Pasteurised) Milk5
Tuberculin Tested (Certified) Milk1
Pasteurised Milk (from schools)53
Pasteurised Milk (other than from schools)47
For tubercle bacilli6
For brucella abortus4
For bacteria of typhoid group1
212

Table: 1. Bacterial Count.

1. Bacterial Count.

Up to 100 per 1 c.c.3
Over 100 to 500 per 1 c.c.11
Over 500 to 1,000 per 1 c.c.2
Over 1,000 to 5,000 per 1 c.c.20
Over 5,000 to 10,000 per 1 c.c.15
Over 10,000 to 50,000 per 1 c.c.30
Over 50,000 to 100,000 per 1 c.c.24
Over 100,000 to 200,000 per 1 c.c.0
Over 200,000 to 400,000 per 1 c.c6
Over 400,000 to 600,000 per 1 c.c.4
Over 600,000 to 1,000,000 per 1 c.c.1
Over 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 per 1 c.c.2
Over 2,000,0007
Impossible to count9
Spoilt culture—overgrown1
145

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ICE CREAM.
One hundred and fifty-eight samples of ice cream have been
examined with the following results:—